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  After forty
years, Hammett has a worthy successor' The Times
  
  Dave Brandstetter stands alongside Philip Marlowe, Sam
Spade and Lew Archer as one of the best fictional PIs in the business. Like them, he was tough, determined, and ruthless
when the case demanded it. Unlike them, he was gay.
  
  Joseph Hansen's groundbreaking novels follow
Brandstetter as he investigates cases in which motives are murky, passions run high, and nothing is ever as simple as it
looks. Set in 1970s and 80s California, the series is a fascinating portrait of a time and a place, with mysteries to
match Chandler and Macdonald.
  
  In Fadeout, Dave is sent to investigate the death of radio personality Fox
Olsen. His car is found crashed in a dry river bed. But there is no body - and as Dave looks deeper into his life, it
seems as though he had good reasons to disappear.
  
  Review
  
  "Hansen is the most exciting and
effective writer of the classic private-eye novel working today."—Los Angeles Times
  
  
  
  If this Corvette-cool, drumskin-taut policier
leaves you marveling at its incorporation of a totally rugged, sexy, openly gay sleuth into a style and milieu that
reads deliciously like Chandler, Hemingway, and Jacqueline Susann all in bed together, then get this: Hansen wrote it
not at the turn of this century--which has gay characters popping up in books and movies and on TV in all sorts of
stereotype-busting ways--but, remarkably, in the 70s! Indeed, it was the second in what became Hansen's series of
Southern California-set whodunits featuring insurance-claims investigator Dave Brandstetter, who is not without his own
lost loves and private demons--and yet never without his cigarette, glass of whiskey (neat, of course), and enough
terse, manly stoicism to make Steve McQueen look like Richard Simmons. The Brandstetter series has acquired something of
a cult following over the 30 years that Hansen developed it (_Death Claims_ is the second title in its U.S. revival
courtesy of Alyson Publications, although many more are currently in print by No Exit Press, available on Amazon's U.K.
link) and this slim, no-slack volume, which followed up __, the series debut, makes it delightfully clear why.
Everything you could want in a gay-inflected murder mystery set in golden-haired SoCal in the Nixon years is here: A
middle-aged rare-books dealer whose doped-up body is found washed up on the coast, his shrewish ex-wife, his lovely
young bibliophile girlfriend, and his angelically beautiful and adoring actor son. Don't forget the imperiously queeny
head of the local repertory theater; the confirmed-bachelor superstar of a TV western and the blind, Bible-thumping
mother who rules his life; a seedy young hospital orderly who smuggles morphine to addicted patients; and a couple of
small-time academics obsessed with the lost notebooks of Thomas Wolfe.
  
  Then there's Hansen's language,
which falls brilliantly somewhere between homage to and spoof of his thriller-penning forebears, right from the first
line--"Arena Blanca was right. The sand that bracketed the little bay was so white it hurt the eyes...gulls sheared a
sky cheerful as new denim"--to curt, epigrammatic lines--"The dead are terrible. They won't help you at all. No matter
how you loved them"--that can only be said with a cigarette propped out of the corner of one's mouth. In fact, the only
thing you could call even remotely stereotypically gay about Hansen's prose (or, indeed, Brandstetter's point-of-view)
is its obsession with interior design--but even that remains true to genre ("a wastebasket was alone there like a dwarf
prince in a dungeon--royal-purple plastic embossed with gold fleur-de-lis...").
  
  True, none of the
supporting characters is really developed beyond colorful stock, and not every gear of the story clicks into place with
the elegant exactitude and ever-increasing tension and claustrophobia of the technically perfect mystery novel. But who
cares? Dave Brandstetter is too cool to be passed up. He's got a steady enough hand to take a drink with even the most
sinister of suspects, he hangs out and talks about relationships with his suave Lothario dad, and he can be sensitive
and tender with his longtime lesbian friend Madge without lapsing into total schmaltz. Oh, and of course he's haunted by
the boy that got away. --Timothy Murphy
  
  
  
  Joseph Hansen’s groundbreaking
investigator Dave Brandstetter delves into the suspicious death of a gay entrepreneur
  
  Rick
Wendell’s ranch is far from town. A remote, dusty hideaway, its only inhabitants are Rick, his aging mother, and
her horses. One night, Rick’s mother returns from the movies to find Rick lying on the floor, stark naked and
with a gaping bullet wound in his chest. Standing over him is his lover, a mustachioed hippie, who swears he did not
fire the gun that he’s holding. The case seems open-and-shut, but Dave Brandstetter is not satisfied.
  
  An insurance investigator with an unusually keen sense of detection, Dave is openly gay and professionally
skeptical. Something about the murder causes him to trust the alleged killer—and seriously doubt Rick’s
mother.
  
  Troublemaker is book three in the Dave Brandstetter Mystery series, which also includes The Man
Everybody Was Afraid Of and Skinflick.
  
  Review
  
  “Nicely complicated . . . A skillful
piece of work.” —The New York Times
  
  “After forty years, Hammett has a worthy
successor.” —The Times (London)
  
  “An excellent craftsman, a compelling writer.”
—The New Yorker 						

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